Pre-Conference Workshops

The pre-conference workshop will take place on Monday 23 June at Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajersvej 7A.

The pre-conference workshop is organized in four sessions, where two will run in parallel in the morning, and two will run in parallel in the afternoon. It will only be possible to register for the full day, and during registration it will be mandatory to choose the specific sessions you wish to attend.

The sessions will consist of longer presentations that will go into depth on the proposed topic.

The following pre-conference workshops will take place (new proposals are no longer accepted)
WSn.n refers to the Conference Program — Monday:

Morning workshops (8.30-12.30)

WS 1: Brain Computer Interfaces for Neurorehabilitation

Description: Rehabilitation of neurological disorders, such as stroke, has been a topic of intensive research, as conventional rehabilitation methods for these disorders are expensive and inefficient. Brain computer interfaces have been one of key tools for the research and application of neurorehabilitation. This workshop presents recent advances in this area on various aspects, from the underlying physiological principle, signal processing, neuro-feedback for pain management, to successful commercial applications.

WS1.1: Modulation of Cortical Excitability by Detection of Motor Intention and Artificial Afferent Feedback: A New Avenue for Neurorehabilitation

WS 2: Invasive Techniques in Neurorehabilitation

Moderator: Ernest Kamavuako, Aalborg University
Room: A4-108

Description: The outcome of rehabilitation depends very much on the means that are employed to interface the neuromuscular system. More and more rehabilitation techniques require this interface to be invasive in order to guaranty successful results; and some of these interfaces are making their way to the clinics. The goal of this pre-conference workshop is, on one side to provide an overview of available invasive techniques and on the other side to focus on technical and market challenges from laboratory to commercial products.

Afternoon workshops (13.30-17.30)

WS 3: Robots in Rehabilitation

Description: In order to effectively implement robotic devices in daily clinical routine practice the COST Action TD1006: European Network on Robotics for NeuroRehabilitation aims at enabling the development of innovative, efficient and patient-tailored robot-assisted therapies based on basic and applied research perspectives. The interdisciplinary team of leading researchers from robot engineering, clinical motor neurorehabilitation, computational neuroscience and neuroimaging from 23 European countries present their current work on guidelines for clinical and robotic assessment of robotic therapies and their visions for future rehabilitation robots.

WS3.1: Applied research and implementation of robotics in upper extremity stroke rehabilitation

Gerdienke Prange, Roessingh Research and Development, Enschede, The Netherlands

WS 4: Functional Electrical Stimulation in Neurorehabilitation – Where are we now?

Description: Functional Electrical Stimulation has been investigated for several decades in relation to assistive devices and neuro-rehabilitation. However, it has never obtained a broad acceptance. Is this related to donning/doffing, esthetics, difficulties in daily operation, discomfort or what? This workshop will review the current state of the art and future visions of FES in neuro-rehabilitation.

WS4.0: Introduction

Ole Kæseler Andersen

WS4.1: What is hindering FES to be widely used for neurorehabilitation?